Albert Einstein is known around the world for changing how we understand space and time. But not many people know that he was ...

Einstein's Big Idea homepage. 13 April 1901. Professor Wilhelm Ostwald University of Leipzig Leipzig, Germany Esteemed Herr Professor! Please forgive a father who is so bold as to turn to you ...

Einstein had a birthday, of course. It was March 14, 1879. ... Maja, was two years younger. It wasn't obvious that he was a genius. Actually, he didn't talk until he was nearly 3.

A new study of Einstein explores his search for spiritual meaning. In “I Am a Part of Infinity,” Kieran Fox celebrates Einstein’s attempt to address the emptiness of a disenchanted world.

In another letter to his own young son who was studying piano, Einstein advised him, “mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those.